The image of an ill Michael Jordan being carried to the bench by Chicago Bulls teammate Scottie Pippen—after he had punished the Jazz in Game 5 of the 1997 Finals in Utah—will forever be remembered as one of the great moments in one of the great NBA careers.

But the circumstances leading up to that moment remained cloudy over the years, and Jordan’s trainer, Tim Grover, added yet another theory to how Jordan's history ‘Flu Fame’ came to be.

In fact, Grover says it wasn’t the flu at all.

"100 percent," Grover said on TrueHoop TV. "He was poisoned for the 'flu game.' Everyone called it a flu game, but we sat there. We were in the room."

Grover goes into further detail:

We were in Park City, Utah, up in a hotel. Room service stopped at like nine o'clock. He got hungry and we really couldn't find any other place to eat. So we said eh, the only thing I can find is a pizza place. So we says all right, order pizza.

We had been there for a while. Everybody knew what hotel. Park City was not many hotels back then. So everyone kind of knew where we were staying.

So we order pizza.

Five guys came to deliver this pizza.

I take the pizza and I tell them: "I've got a bad feeling about this. ... I've just got a bad feeling about this."

Out of everybody in the room, [MJ] was the only one who ate. Nobody else had it.

And then 2 o'clock in the morning I get a call to my room. Come to the room. He's curled up in the fetal position. We're looking at him, finding the team physician at that time.